The Samsung Galaxy S9 May Have 512GB Of Internal Storage

Samsung has just announced that it has started mass production of the first 512 GB flash storage. The new high-capacity eUFS enables a premium smartphone to store approximately 130 4K Ultra High Definition video clips of 10-minutes, which is about a tenfold increase compared to 64-gigabyte eUFS, which allows storage of only about 13 video clips of the same size.

This behemoth of a storage solution is intended for use in “next generation” mobile devices, which probably means we'll get to see it when the Galaxy S9 is announced early next year. This year's iPhone's, i.e. the X, 8 and 8 Plus have a 256GB variant as well. Samsung can possibly double the gap by integrating the memory chip in its upcoming flagship.

This could also mean that the MicroSD card slot, which is highly regarded in the Android market, may not make a comeback. Samsung received a lot of flak when it threw out the microSD card slot from the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy Note 5, both 2015 models.

“The new Samsung 512GB eUFS provides the best-embedded storage solution for next-generation premium smartphones by overcoming potential limitations in system performance that can occur with the use of micro SD cards.” Jaesoo Han, executive vice president of Memory Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics said.

As per Samsung, the new storage will be highly conservative in energy use and have strong read/write times, speeds of 860 megabytes per second (MB/s) and 255MB/s respectively can be achieved.

Samsung also said it 'intends to steadily increase an aggressive production volume for its 64-layer 512Gb V-NAND chips, in addition to expanding its 256Gb V-NAND production.'

Last month Samsung also announced the Exynos 9810 Chipset that is even faster and better than the current 8895 chipsets powering Note8. Though it is manufactured on the same 10nm FinFET architecture, it houses different specifications that will make the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ even better than the Galaxy Note 8. The Exynos 9810 is going to take on the Snapdragon 845, which too shall be announced in the coming few months.

Samsung has been making multiple variants of it's S series smartphones for quite some time now. The ones sold in America are powered by the latest Qualcomm processor while other regions receive the Exynos unit. We are also looking forward to seeing the new Qualcomm Fingerprint Sensor that will sit below thick displays to provide an invisible 'under the display' fingerprint scanner. One of the big issues with the Samsung Galaxy S8 was the fact that the fingerprint sensor was shoved to the back of the phone after rumours swirled that the reader was supposed to go under the display's glass but it just didn't work out.